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Promos and sign-off sequence for PBS member station KLRN San Antonio, recorded in the early overnight of hours on Monday, November 13, 1989 (almost exactly 31 years to the day, ironically).
Some background (of course): By this point, KLRN had completely severed ties with the Austin market entirely. The Southwest Texas Public Broadcasting Council assumed its current name of Alamo Public Telecommunications Council in 1987, the year KLRU was spun off into its own entity, Capital of Texas Public Telecommunications Council, with its own governing board of community members. The two still share similar base call signs as a reminder that they were once affiliated, but these days are completely unrelated (case in point: KLRU has gone all-in on the new 2020 PBS logo, branding and graphics while KLRN continues with its mish-mash of in-house, Final Cut and old PBS graphics mix). KLRU assumed the old KLRN studios on the University of Texas campus and rights to producing the show Austin City Limits.
The "Alamo-Star" logo device you see here began use in 1979, coinciding with the sign on of KLRU. When the two stations split in 1987, KLRN retained it, for a while as the station logo, but eventually just as a "corporate logo" of sorts for the Alamo Public Telecommunications Council (like you see here). This would remain in use until 2000, when KLRN debuted a new logo for the new millennium and finally retired this logo. That said, it's still on the outside sign of its current building and forever engraved on the exterior wall of its studio wing (currently named the "Charline McCombs Media Center").
Speaking of studios, at the time KLRN was in leased space at the Institute of Texan Cultures on the Hemisfair campus downtown. This was the same space that was mainly intended as a "satellite studio" (more like offices) for San Antonio back when KLRN's main facilities were in Austin, and were never meant to be a full scale studio space. It took KLRN until 1994 to move into permanent, purpose-built facilities elsewhere downtown (they took over an old car dealership building and constructed a brand new studio wing).
This sign-off was recorded off of cable rather than directly off-air with an antenna (as evidenced by the "ch 10" scrawled on the spine label, which was, and still is, KLRN's cable slot). As a result, when the main over the air transmitter was turned off for the night, the cable feed switched to a simulcast of The Travel Channel (edited out here).
0:00 - Channel intro
0:05 - PBS network ID
0:11 - KLRN "Stories of Christmas Love with Leo Buscaglia" promo
0:41 - KLRN Patron List promo
1:21 - The Star Spangled Banner
2:46 - KLRN sign-off message/legal and STL IDs
3:42 - color bars
©1989 Alamo Public Telecommunications Council and KLRN-TV, no copyright infringement intended. For educational and historical purposes only. We do not profit off of this video.
(Originally uploaded to the main Studio 31 Media Archive channel on November 12, 2020; now being re-presented here as my "vintage" content migrates here exclusively)